In Ethiopia, the situation is even worse and unless immediate action is taken to pacify the situation, balkanisation of the country is inexorable. Since the Laurette of 2019 came to power in April 2018, over 3 million people have been internally displaced because of ethnic conflicts. Carnages are taking place in Qemant with complete latitude, and recently there have been gruesome killings of innocent people in Metekel, Gumuz by the special forces of Amhara administration and no measures have been taken by the federal government tohold the perpetrators accountable for the heinous crimes they committed. Large swathes of the country including Western Oromia, Sidama and Amhara Zones have been placed under military command on the orders of the PM.In today’s Ethiopia, maintaining law and order is becoming increasingly difficult and lately the Military’s Chief of Staff was assassinated in the metropolis in broad day light.

Abiy Ahmed is not a peace maker as the Nobel Peace Committee would like us to believe. On the contrary, the Ethiopian Prime Minister is being accused of ‘’ fanning instability in Somalia and South Sudan’’ by theUN on the eve of the award ceremony. Many Somali politicians have accused theso-called peace makerof interfering in their domestic politics. Obviously, the PM of Ethiopia was awarded the Peace Prize for 2019 because his powerful friends in Washington lobbied the committee on his behalf. And based on this assessment it is safe to conclude that the honour was not on merit but purely political.

How was it possible for Abiy to beat the world famous 16-year-old climate change crusader, Great Thunberg, without the support of the US? Abiy in return will be expected to reciprocate by opening the market of over 100 million people, and by selling the very profitable public assets such as Ethiopian Airlines, Ethio-Telecom, sugar factories and others possibly to American multi-nationals.The US will do its best to ensure Abiy remains in power so that her economic and geo-political interests would be best served now and in the future by creating a satellite state in the Horn region.The overall strategy is to check and minimize Chinese influence and economic hegemony in Africa and beyond.

There have been several world opinions expressing their dissatisfactions with the  Peace Committee’s decision to award the prize toAbiy,and to add insult to injury, the winner of the 1991  Pace Prize, Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, is being accused by the UN’s highest court of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.It is to be recalled that an estimated 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh after the military’s cleansing operations sanctioned by none other than the previous ‘’ darling’’ of the West who is now facing the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Netherlands.

Abiy Ahmed is a dangerous and double-faced individual who would say something you want to hear in your face and do something completely different to realise his ambitions.The adulation he received when he became PM is dissipating fast and at present he is at his most dangerous state. Because of the backing from Washington and others, he seems to be under the impression that he is at liberty to do whatever is necessary including bullying and the use of force to change the prevailing political system and perpetuatehis hold on power. His foreign supporters are only concerned in furthering their own interests and could not care less the political implications of their actions.

It is visible that Ethiopia is in an extremely volatile situation and can explode at any time leading to intractable civil strife. In pursuit of their political and economic benefits, the US and its allies play dirty politics notwithstanding the human fatalities and utter destructions it may leave behind. Look no further than Iraq where because of their involvement 600,000 people have been killed, in Syria, 570,000 and in Yemen 100,000. After causing so much deaths and annihilations, they move on to their next target without blinking an eye.